Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman CapoteTis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles LambFriendship is but a name. I love no one
Napoleon BonaparteLove is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles PeguyIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth TynanFriendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie ColwinFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert LyndFew things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William HazlittFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Sir Thomas AquinasLaughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De BalzacLove will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
OvidOne's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone De BeauvoirFriendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibres, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
Sir John VanbrughIt is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles KingsleyLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeFriendship and mutual co-operation must be the keywords for alternative ways of working once the Euro Ivory Tower has been demolished.
Steve BlakeFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusA friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Sir Thomas MoreFriendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward YoungFriendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max JacobMoral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Sir Thomas AquinasHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusIf a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.
Chin-Ning ChuI heard what Ashley Cole said about kicking me if he has to, but he will have to catch me first. When we step out on to the pitch on Sunday, all friendships will be forgotten.
Robert PiresFriendship is essentially a partnership.
AristotleIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil GibranIn politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
TocquevilleIt may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Edgar Watson HoweLove demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean NathanI always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine MansfieldI would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
Jacques ChiracLouise this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Humphrey BogartNo one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis CrawfordFriendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
OuidaIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte BronteSecrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorPerhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George EliotThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Sir Thomas AquinasAll love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella WilcoxA man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. [In other words learn to enjoy your own company and it's the start of a life long friendship]
Charles HughesBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas JeffersonA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D RockefellerOne measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton FadimanEvery business is built on friendship.
J C PenneyIf we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis StevensonRead as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George HerbertAnd even though we don’t have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers. [on coach Larri Passos]
Gustavo KuertenI understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon
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